Great Depression WebQuest

3. Locate November 1930 on the timeline: What did many Americans do to earn money during the depression?

4. Locate February and March 1931 on the timeline: What sorts of actions were Americans demonstrations were Americans taking part in during the Great Depression? Why?

5. Find on the timeline when FDR was elected President of the United States. Who was FDR’s opponent? 6. What did FDR deliver for the first time on March 12, 1933?Go to: Great Depression 7. How many Americans were unemployed during the worst part of the Depression? 8. What was the name given to FDR’s presidency? 9. Explain one effect of the Depression in other parts of the world.

10. What finally brought an end to the Depression in the U.S.?Go to: The Great Depression in Picturesand view each picture in the slideshow along with their captions. 11. Name 4 things people are waiting in line for.

12. Before the state and federal governments provided assistance, who was providing relief to Americans? 13. A subsistence level is the bare minimum of basic needs that a family requires to survive. What percentage of American families was living below this level during the Depression?Go to: Dust Bowl 14. Explain what the Dust Bowl was.

15. What were the two main causes of the Dust Bowl.

16. Explain what the Dust Bowl caused people in that region to do.

Go to: Stock Market Crash 17. When did the stock market crash? 18. What does “buying on margin” mean?

19. Name something the stock market crash led to.

20. What programs, started by FDR, aimed to bring the country out of the Depression? (2 word name)

Go to: 1930's 21. What was the average yearly income in 1930? 22. How much was a gallon of gas in 1930? 23. What superhero appeared in a comic for the first time in the 1930s?

24. Name 3 sporting changes during the 1930s – not all from the same sport – choose 3 sports and 1 change from each.

25. Name 3 new inventions of the 1930s and the year they were invented.

28. What was the WPA? 29. What was the CCC 30. What did many people say the New Deal programs reminded them of? Go to: Hoovervilles 31. What were Hoovervilles?

32. Why were they called Hoovervilles? 33. What is another name for a Hooverville?Go to: Cultural History 34. Who were the 2 presidents of the 1930s? 35. Look under “Fads and Fashions” – Name 3 ways people spent their free time during the Depression?